[wix-users] Registry search weirdness

John Naylor mejohnnaylor at mac.com
Mon Jul 4 20:21:27 PDT 2016


I found this line in the log, just before the script gets invoked:

MSI (s) (B0:04) [22:19:51:193]: Hello, I'm your 32bit Elevated Non-remapped custom action server.

32 bit. Smoking gun?

> On Jul 4, 2016, at 9:18 PM, John Naylor <mejohnnaylor at mac.com> wrote:
> 
> I have a powershell script that installs and runs just fine. 
> 
> When I try to run it during the install as a custom action I get a failure message in the log, and the install rolls back. 
> 
> The problem line in the script is:
> 
> $myvar = Get-ItemProperty HKLM:SOFTWARE\path\to\property
> 
> The error in the log is that the item cannot be found. 
> 
> Running this line at the powershell prompt, or invoking the script its in produces the expected result. 
> 
> Does the installer prevent access to the registry during installation or something? I can't figure this one out. 
> 
> Thx!
> 
> Sent from my iPhone. Please excuse brevity and auto-corruptions. 
> 
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